AMH-2091 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Slavery In Africa, Indentured Servant, Gullah
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Race: the assumption of differences based on real or imagined physical characteristics; determined how society is made up (changes over time) society chooses. Ethnicity: gives people their own option; when a group of people recognize they have something in common; ex: traditions, religion, food, history you choose. W african urban areas cosmopolitan and modern. Rural religion: polytheistic, animistic, subservient to one androgynous creator god; dance/drums. European discovery ; 15th century portuguese traders, 16th century christopher columbus. 5 pre-conceived stereotypes: blackness, savagery, sexuality, heathenism (no religion, animality. Euros needed people to harvest sugar in the new world; native americans died off too quickly. Already a slave trade in africa (indentured servitude, class based, non-stigmatic) Types of african slaves: prisoner of war (2-3 years; you could be bought out, criminals (cannot be bought out) Murderer: slave for life; most expensive: debtors (can be bought out)
